Pastor Ray Aiuto is a member of Metro New York Presbytery. Prior to his becoming organizing pastor of Resurrection Church in 2005 he served as the RUF Campus Pastor at New York University.

On Sunday evenings, a Hispanic Lutheran church on the gritty south side of the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn transforms into a hipster religious revival with plenty of fashion but no irony.

Worshippers with full-sleeve tattoos, skinny jeans, stocking caps and square glasses pack the pews of Resurrection Presbyterian Church on South Fifth Street.

“The fellowship with everyone here is amazing,” said Shaun Lee, 30, a skinny, scruffy East Village bartender who sports a skullcap and cargo jacket to service…

The aisles are full of artists, actors, fashion stylists and musicians.
Even the pastor, the Rev. Vito Aiuto — trained at the Princeton Seminary — is in a band, and has recorded music with indie hero Sufjan Stevens, an occasional congregant…

Live jazz accompanies the collection, and church suppers include plenty of red wine, but the holy hipsters are serious about Christ. During services, parishioners raise their arms in prayer and confess that God saved them from “the power of the devil.”

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